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New food truck opens in Ketchikan, first since borough ordinance lifted restrictions Posted by Molly Lubbers | Jun 28, 2021 On opening day, food truck owner Tammy Bellanich writes down Jeff Orr’s order. (Molly Lubbers/KRBD) For the first time in years, there’s a new food truck in Ketchikan. It’s the first to come on the scene since the passage of a local ordinance that dialed back restrictions on mobile eateries in the First City.
Bright orange and boxy, the new sausage-and-fries truck has a one-word name. But owner Tammy Bellanich says she spent months toying around with what to call it. ....
Ketchikan City Council nixes proposed pay cuts, green-lights tourism strategy, OKs guns-for-armor trade Posted by Eric Stone | May 10, 2021 Aerial view of Ketchikan (KRBD). Ketchikan’s City Council rejected a cost-cutting proposal to reduce city employees’ weekly hours. The council also green-lit funding for a community tourism strategy and OK’d a proposal to trade forfeited guns for body armor.
Back in March, as city officials grappled with the fiscal impact of a second summer without cruise ships, four city council members floated cuts to city employees’ hours as a money-saving measure. City finance officials estimate that cutting the city’s non-union workforce back to four days a week for the remainder of the year would save more than $1 million. ....
City of Ketchikan Mayor Bob Sivertsen was absent, with Vice Mayor Dave Kiffer presiding. The council in its June 20, 2019 meeting approved the expenditure of the $20,000 for the program, but it was set aside when the COVID-19 challenges arrived and the money was not spent. The borough, according to information from Borough Planning Director Richard Harney, has approved $80,000 to support the project. Harney explained the aim of the project during Thursday s meeting. âIn order for us to be sustainable moving into the future, to try to get our community to be more resilient, we talked about this tourism strategy a few years ago, before the pandemic hit,â he said. ....
The Ketchikan City Council in its regular meeting Thursday will consider approving spending $20,000 to co-fund a Community Tourism Strategy Project with the Ketchikan Gateway Borough Planning Department. According to a memo written by Assistant City Manager Lacey Simpson and attached to Thursdayâs meeting agenda, the council in its June 20, 2019 meeting approved the expenditure of the $20,000 for the program, but it was set aside when the COVID-19 challenges arrived and the money was not spent. According to information written by Borough Planning Director Richard Harney and included in the agenda packet, the borough approved $80,000 to support the program. Harney wrote, âAs the ships will begin sailing again, the strategy is ready to be pursued.â ....
On the afternoon of Jan. 22, as part of its annual policy session, the Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly entered a work session to discuss affordable housing in the borough and ....